Iran, al-Qaida, Taliban told to pay $6B for 9/11


Al-Qaida, the Taliban and Iran should pay $6 billion to relatives of Sept. 11 victims for aiding in the 2001 terror attacks, a federal magistrate judge recommended Monday in a largely symbolic decision.

Even though it will be nearly impossible to collect damages, plaintiff Ellen Saracini, whose husband, Victor, was the captain of one of the planes that struck the World Trade Center, told the Daily News (http://nydn.us/OgIS41) that she is happy about Manhattan Federal Magistrate Judge Frank Maas' recommendation.

"It's hard being happy, but I am happy about it," said Saracini, of Yardley, Pa. "But it opens up old wounds. We were never in it for a lawsuit. I wanted to know what happened to my husband."

Last year, Judge George Daniels signed a default judgment on the lawsuit brought by relatives of 47 victims. He found al-Qaida, the Taliban and Iran liable and asked the magistrate to determine damages. Maas' ruling Monday is a recommendation to Daniels, who can accept it or amend it.

Maas calculated punitive and compensatory damages for each of the plaintiffs and their lost family members.

Daniels ruled last year that the plaintiffs had established that the 2001 attacks were caused by the support the defendants provided to al-Qaida. The findings said Iran continues to provide material support and resources to al-Qaida by providing a safe haven for al-Qaida leadership and rank-and-file members.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly denied any Iranian connection in the Sept. 11 attacks or with al-Qaida.

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Information from: Daily News,http://www.nydailynews.com

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2018815195_apussept11attackslawsuit.html

Nemo me impune lacesset,

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"The chief aim of all government is to preserve the freedom of the citizen. His control over his person, his property, his movements, his business, his desires should be restrained only so far as the public welfare imperatively demands. The world is in more danger of being governed too much than too little. It is the teaching of all history that liberty can only be preserved in small areas. Local self-government is, therefore, indispensable to liberty. A centralized and distant bureaucracy is the worst of all tyranny. Taxation can justly be levied for no purpose other than to provide revenue for the support of the government. To tax one person, class or section to provide revenue for the benefit of another is none the less robbery because done under the form of law and called taxation." John W. Davis, Democratic Presidential Candidate, 1924. Davis was one of the greatest trial and appellate lawyers in US history. He also served as the US Ambassador to the UK.

agreed ...

so how much should US pay to start an illegal war in iraq?

the relatives in afganistan, mainly civilians who were moan down by the US military? or in wasristan in drone attacks where hundreds of men, women and children who have no links with any militants were murdered?...

it should bankrupt the already broke US government

Hypcracy is the virtue of the infidel

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Pakistan Airforce: The largest distributor of Indian airforce parts in Asia



Pathankot Strike
8 F-86Fs of No 19 Squadron led by Squadron Leader Sajjad Haider struck Pathankot airfield. With carefully positioned dives and selecting each individual aircraft in their protected pens for their strafing attacks, the strike elements completed a textbook operation against Pathankot. Wing Commander M G Tawab, flying one of the two Sabres as tied escorts overhead, counted 14 wrecks burning on the airfield. Among the aircraft destroyed on the ground were nearly all of the IAFs Soviet-supplied Mig-21s till then received, none of which were seen again during the War.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFHlzP69n9c

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America should pay those familys since it helped and financed al qaida in the 80s.
Irans regime and the taliban and al qaida hate eachother.

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"You burn our beliefs, we burn your kids, it's only fair"

"It's not the ideology alone that they're afraid of, but the determination and will of the men behind that movement" : Parthianshots

What a crock of $hit... they were mostly Saudi's...





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I am going to be charitable and say Judge Maas is a moron.

Let me help y'all a bit. A Default Judgment was entered. What that means is that a lawyer filed a civil complaint and served that complaint upon the defendants. As an aside, I think you could actually get service on Iran through its UN mission or otherwise, but getting service on alQeada or the Taliban had to have been done by an alternate means like publication. I'm not sure how that was done nor that if challenged it would hold up. Be that as it may, once the Default Judgment is entered the remainder of Judicial input is largely ministerial.

This exercise in futility is, in my view misguided and merely reflects the inability of the families to feel closure in an increasingly litigious world.

Nemo me impune lacesset,

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"The chief aim of all government is to preserve the freedom of the citizen. His control over his person, his property, his movements, his business, his desires should be restrained only so far as the public welfare imperatively demands. The world is in more danger of being governed too much than too little. It is the teaching of all history that liberty can only be preserved in small areas. Local self-government is, therefore, indispensable to liberty. A centralized and distant bureaucracy is the worst of all tyranny. Taxation can justly be levied for no purpose other than to provide revenue for the support of the government. To tax one person, class or section to provide revenue for the benefit of another is none the less robbery because done under the form of law and called taxation." John W. Davis, Democratic Presidential Candidate, 1924. Davis was one of the greatest trial and appellate lawyers in US history. He also served as the US Ambassador to the UK.

I don't think anyone actually thought there was any actual legitimacy behind this suit, or any real means to collect (I can file a lawsuit against North Korea because the Kim Jong Il character from Team America World Police made me laugh so hard I fell over and bumped my head, doesn't mean anything would come of it, and just wastes valuable judicial time and money).

My "crock" comment was directed at the train of thought put into scheming up such a ridiculous suit in the first place.

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